Wednesday Presentation

Wow, I guess it's been a while since I last posted!  For now I've just got a quick announcement for anyone 'round here who might be interested:  I'll be giving a grad student talk at Rutgers tomorrow night at 7:30pm in the Philosophy department, in the classroom across from the seminar room.  Here's some info about it:

The title:  "Time Travel and Motion"

An abstract:  The widely accepted version of Russell’s At-At account of motion is the claim that:  necessarily, something moves iff it’s at one place at one time, and is at a distinct place at a distinct time.  This account has come under attack:  spinning disc cases have been used in an attempt to show that the account is too restrictive in some cases.  I would like to object to the account as well, though on independent grounds.  I find it to be too liberal in some fairly ordinary cases of time travel (though time travel isn't necessary for the cases -- it's really a certain kind of multilocation that generates the problem).  If the cases I suggest are possible, then the At-At account is false.  And even if my cases are merely conceptually possible, the At-At account cannot be accepted as an analysis of motion.  (I'll also talk for a little bit about some intuitive responses to spinning disc cases, and some further problems that we face in giving an account of motion.)

And if this sounds familiar:  I mentioned this paper here last April (though it's changed a bit since I wrote that summary!), and again in September.  And it's what I'll be presenting in Chicago in two weeks -- I'm so excited!!  (I'm also counting the days 'till the Pacific -- less than one week until I board a flight there . . .)

Hope everyone's spring is blissful and productive!

Comments

[Peter Thurley]

Good to have you back posting Shieva! Good luck with your talk, and best of luck at the APA as well!

[Fritz Warfield]

hi Shieva -- You're alive!
Hope your talk went well. I'll see (uhm, and hear) the APA Central version of it in a few weeks.

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